While we may be witnessing a highpoint of interest in the lives of early women lawyers, and women’s legal history generally, feminist legal history remains largely undeveloped in the UK. Drawing on examples of women’s representation in and engagement with law and law reform in the UK and Ireland, this article delineates the method, scope and purpose of feminist legal history. It begins by exploring the place of women in traditional accounts of legal history, before going on to consider the methodological and substantive goals of feminist legal history. We argue that feminist legal history is a political project, requiring its authors to commit not only to uncovering untold stories but to challenging and revising dominant historical narratives. We conclude with a call for scholars to take up the insights and methods of feminist legal history as a means of acknowledging and celebrating the agency of those involved in past and ongoing struggles for justice and equality.

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女权主义法律史案例

虽然我们可能正在目睹早期女律师的生活和女性法律史的高潮，但英国的女权主义法律史在很大程度上仍未得到发展。本文以英国和爱尔兰妇女在法律和法律改革中的代表性和参与为例，描绘了女权主义法律史的方法、范围和目的。它首先探索女性在传统法律史叙述中的地位，然后再考虑女权主义法律史的方法论和实质性目标。我们认为，女权主义法律史是一项政治工程，要求其作者不仅致力于揭露不为人知的故事，而且要挑战和修正占主导地位的历史叙事。